British snorkeller killed by crocodile in Australia

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A British man whose badly mauled body was found off Australia’s remote north eastern coast is believed to have been attacked and killed by a crocodile.

Mining superintendent Russell Harris, 37, from Eastwood, near Nottingham, disappeared while snorkelling off Groote Eylandt, a mineral-rich island about 35 miles from the mainland, in the Gulf of Carpentaria.

He had been working in the local manganese mine owned by BHP for the past five months. Tragedy struck over the weekend when Mr Harris and a friend went diving off some rocks near a popular island beach.